Auxiliary seat for barber-chairs.



J SILVERMAN.

AUXILIARY SEAT FOR BARBER CHAIRS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 23.1915.

1 ,247, 1 6 1|. Patented Nov. 20, 1917.

JOSEPH SILVERMAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINQIS.

AUXILIARY SEAT FOR BARBER-CHAIRS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 20, 1917.

Application filed December 23, 1915. Serial No. 68,304.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH SILVERMAN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Auxiliary Seats forBarber-Chairs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in auxiliary seats for barberchairs designed to be applied to an ordinary barber chair as aconvenient seat for children, to support a child at a proper level withrespect to the working position of the barber when cutting the childshair.

The object of the device is to provide a simple auxiliary seat for thepurpose set forth which is adjustable to adapt it to barber chairs ofdifferent sizes and the supporting means of which are such as to providean exceeedingly rigid support for the seat notwithstanding themovability of the parts which renders the seat device adjustable.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of the partsshown in the drawings and described in the specification and is pointedout in the appended claims.

In said drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a familiar type ofbarber chair showing my invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the auxiliary seat.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation thereof.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary section on the line 4.4 of Fig. 3.

As shown in the drawings 10 designates as a whole a standard barberchair upon the arms 11 of which my novel auxiliary seat is adapted to besupported. Said seat device consists, in general terms, of a seatportion 12, herein shown as circular, but may be made of any othershape, laterally extending supporting members 14, 14, which areconnected to the seat portion in a manner to support the same and areadapted to rest on the arms of the chair, and arm rests 15, 15, at eachside of the seat portion on which the arms of the child occupying theseat may conveniently rest.

The said supports 14 are made of rods or wires of suitable dimensions togive the required strength. The support 14 at each side of the chair isof general U-shape, the members of" the U-shaped supports beingconnected at their outer ends by integral cross members 16. The outerends of the members 14 of the supports are turned downwardly asindicated at 17 and are adapted to engage over the arms 11 of the chalr10.

- The inner or free ends of the members 14 of the supports extend intoand have sliding engagement with tubes 19 arranged beneath the seatportion 12. The sliding engagement of said support members 14 with saidtubes is designed for the purpose of adjusting the device to barberchairs of varying widths between the side arms thereof.

As herein shown the seat portion, designated as a whole by 12, comprisesa base plateor board 21, best shown in Fig. 4, a mass of cushioningmaterial 22 thereon and a seat cover 23,said seat cover extending at itsedges over the edges of the circular or other form of base plate orboard 21 and may be nailed or otherwise secured thereto. Said seatportion as herein shown, comprises also a depending circular, or othershaped stiffening flange 25, provided with an annular lip 26 whichextends inwardly over the cover at the outer edge of the seat ortion inthe manner most clearly shown in igs. 1 and 4. The said flange 25is'shown as connected to the seat portion by means of angle pieces 27which are inserted in the angle between the base plate and the dependingflange and are attached to said flange by bolts 28, each of whichextends through the depending flange 25 and. the vertical member of oneof the angle pieces 27. The horizontal members of said angle pieces, atright angles to those attached to the flange 25, cooperate with theannular lip 26 to clamp the base board and the part supported thereon inthe ring member composed of said flange 25 and its lip 26.

, When the seat portion embraces the depending flange 25, said flange ispierced to provide openings for the passage of the members 14 of theseat support as will be clear from an inspection of Figs. 2and 4.Furthermore when the device is thus constructed the tubes 19 whichreceive the inner free ends of the U-shapcd supporting .memhere 14 neednot be directly attached to the seat portion, but are confined in placeby the surrounding depending flange 25 and by the telescopic connectionthereof with the seat supports. If the flange 25 be omitted from theseat portion other means may be provided for confining the said tubesrelatively to or attaching the same to the base plate of the seatportion.

In order that the seat supports l l may be moved inwardly and outwardlyto adjust the device to barber chairs of different widths and in orderalso to provide means for limiting the extreme inward and outwardadjustments I have shown the members of the supports 14: as providedwith stop pins 30 which extend into limited longitudinal slots 31 in thetubes 19. Contact of said pins with the ends of said slots acts to limitthe inward and outward movement of said supporting members.

When the arm rests 15 are employed the same may be made of wire rods andprovided with eyes 32 by which they may be fastened to the seat portion,as by means of bolts 33 extending through said eyes and through thedepending annular flange 25.

In order to prevent the metal wires or rods of the seat members 14 frommarring the chair arms the outer portions of said wires or rods may becovered by cushioning tubes 85, as for instance, rubber hose, in themanner shown in the drawings, said tubes extending over the downturnedends 17 of the wire or rod supports.

By reason of the telescopic connection of the members of the seatsupport 14 with the tubes 19, which latter are confined or otherwiseattached to the seat portion, a very rigid connection is affordedbetween said supports and the seat portion and one which permits ofready adjustment of the device to chairs of difl'erent widths.

It will be understood that the structural details of the invention maybe somewhat varied from those herein shown and described within thespirit and scope of the Lemuel claims, and it is the intention to claimall of inherent novelty shown in the drawings and described in thespecification.

I claim as my invention 1. An auxiliary seat for barber chairscomprising a'seat member provided with a rigid, marginal, dependingperforated flange, two parallel tubes separate from and beneath the seatmember and extending from side to side thereof within said flange, andsupports having arms which extend through the perforations in the flangeand have telescopic engagement with said tubes, whereby said tubes aresupported in the structure and the flange and tubes mutually cooperateto reinforce the connection between said supports and said seat member.

2. An auxiliary seat for barber chairs comprising a seat member providedwith a rigid, marginal, depending perforated flange, two parallel tubesseparate from and beneath the seat member and extending from side toside thereof within said flange, U- shaped supports, the arms of whichextend through the perforations in the flange and have telescopicengagement with said tubes, whereby said tubes are supported in thestructure and said flange and tubes mutually cooperate to reinforce theconnection between said supports and said seat member, and interactingstops on the arms of said supports and the tube constructed to permitthe. supports to be adapted to Varyingly spaced chair arms and to limitthe maximum width of adjustment.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I aflix mysignature in the presence of two witnesses, this 10th day of December,A. D. 1915.

JOSEPH SILVERMAN.

Witnesses:

W. L. HALL, R. WILLNER.

